Trunk-strap



(No Model.)

G. J. GARNEY.

TRUNK STRAP.

Patented June 8, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE J. OARNEY, OF LOYVELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

TRUNK-STRAP.

QPECIFICA'IION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,222. dated June 8, 1886.

7 Application filed December 2, 1885. Serial No. 184,527. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. CARNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing in Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Straps, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a suitable means whereby trunks, luggage, or other articles may be more securely and easily bound than by the employment of a common strap with a buckle at one end, as more commonly used.

The accompanying drawing illustrates my v invent-ion.

G G represent a strap of suitable length,

with holes D punched therein.

To construct such a strap, a suitable slip of leather or other suitable material has fastened to it at one end a metallic ring with a fixed tongue. Near the other end is aflixed abuckle of ordinary construction, and at the extremity is fastened a plain metallic ring. To this ring is also fastened asecond strap. of suitable length. Each strap has holes, more or less numerous, punched therein.

To use such a strap it is requisite that the strap G be passed around the article to be secured in such a way that the ring E shall not meet the ring B. The strap A is then passed through ring E from beneath, back through ring B from above, repeating this operation until the length of strap A remaining free is sufficient, after being hauled taut, for its end to be secured by the buckle-G. In the event of strap G being too long, so that ring E passes by ring B, strap G can be passed or doubled through ring E and its bight securely held by pin F passing through one of the holes of strap G. Buckle G is non-essential, as the loose end of strap A may be made fast by one or more half-hitches.

I do not confine myself to the exact form delineated in the accompanying drawing; but any strap will have the elements of my invention it composed of two or more parts combined with means of relatively adjusting the length of these parts and of suitably confining said parts after adjustment. The ring with a fixed tongue performs a function which an ordinary buckle with pivoted or loose tongue cannot perform. It prevents the movement of the strap in two directions. dinary buckle is inoperative in one direct-ion.

The ordinary buckle would not and does not The or-. 

